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180427875London: Vernor and Hood Etc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1804. Tenth Edition. Cloth. The hinges are tight on both volumes but the cloth no so much. The spine on volue 1 is loose on one edge and the top of the spine on volume 2 is chipped. Both are rubbed at the corners and along the spine. Contents are very good to fine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 46160110 pages . Vernor and Hood, Etc. hardcover
183720202London. Near Fine. 1837. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decorations & titles. Light rubbing at the edges. All the hinges tight. Note that this is only volume 2 of a 2 volume set. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 611 pages . hardcover
185408172London: William Tegg and co 1854. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 747 pages. Bound in original blind stamped brown cloth engraved title page and frontispiece yellow coated end papers. "A New Edition" by Democritus Minor. Inner hinges starting light fading to cloth. <br/><br/> William Tegg and co hardcover books
189845626London: The University Press Ltd 1898. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth boards; 107pp. Cloth a shade sunned at spine else a tight straight Very Good copy. The two titles bound together as issued; second title has its own half-title but pagination is continuous. Includes Appendix "The English Press and the Prosecution." Two works the first a satirical play the second a scholarly essay attacking British censorship laws and the suppression of public speech. The University Press sometimes calling itself the "Watford University Press" was a project of Rowland de Villiers a freethought and free-speech activist and publisher of controversial literature who has been described by one historian as "a somewhat shady character at best" see Odin Dekkers J.M. Robertson. Lon:1998. Villiers was most famously the British publisher of Havelock Ellis's treatise on sexual inversion; he was arrested on obscenity charges in 1901 and died in police custody. "G. Astor Singer" appears to have been a Villiers pseudonym and we would not be entirely surprised if "Frederick Raymond Coulson" was an alias as well. The University Press, Ltd unknown books
1845FB3043 /1A<p>Brown cloth binding with gilt title and date on the spine.</p><p>This book focuses on the art to 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton first published in 1621. On its surface the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia which includes although it is not limited to what is now termed clinical depression. Although presented as a medical text it is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. It is encyclopedic in its range and reference. In his satirical preface to the reader Burton's persona and pseudonym "Democritus Junior" explains "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy." This is characteristic of the author's style which often supersedes the book's strengths as a medical text or historical document as its main source of appeal to admirers. Both satirical and serious in tone the Anatomy is "vitalized by Burton's pervading humour" and his digressive and inclusive style often verging on a stream of consciousness consistently informs and animates the text.</p> Thomas Tegg. hardcover
18270011701London: Longman Rees Orme and Co. 1827. Thirteenth and Extended Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos; 401 612 pages later three-quarter speckled calf extra-gilt spines cloth marbled endpapers rehinged and with repairs to tips of spines covers incompletely but firmly attached. Bound by Riviere & Son for H. Sotheran London. <br/><br/>This edition has prefixed An Account Of The Author. "The first psychiatric encyclopedia citing nearly 500 medical authors and also a literary tour de force. Burton was prompted to write this book because of his own bouts with depression. It is one of the most popular psychiatric books ever written appearing in over 70 editions since its original publication. It was one of Sir William Osler's favourite books." - Garrison-Morton 4918.1. "Burton had read much and all that he had read . was incorporated in the Anatomy. . if ever a single book deserved to be called the work of a lifetime it is this. . All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there. It has something in common with Brant's 'Ship of Fools' Erasmus's 'Praise of Folly' and More's 'Utopia' with Rabelais and Montaigne and like these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time." - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 118. Note: the first six editions each had corrections or additions by the author. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. hardcover
18265282London: Thomas M'Lean 1826. New Edition. Tree Calf Binding. Measuring approximately 9" x 5.5 with 461 612 numbered pages respectively. <br /> <br /> These volumes are in fair condition. Volume I rear board is detached. Volume II front board is detached. Moderate scuffing to both boards. Interior pages are moderately foxed. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N11-22. Thomas M'Lean unknown
1806318491London: Vernon Hood and Sharpe 1806. 11th edition corrected. Hardcover. Good copy in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: xxiv 601 10 p.; 22 cm. 8vo.Notes: Includes index.Subjects: Mental Health.Psychiatry. Sciences. London: Vernon, Hood and Sharpe hardcover
1857D4633London: William Tegg 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and marbled paper over boards lavishly gilt-stamped compartmented spine gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label endpapers and all edges marbled. With a reproduction of the frontispiece to the original edition. Moderate scuffing on boards spine tips and along edges of boards; corners lightly bumped. A worn but pretty copy with bright gilt. Internally clean. <br/><br/> William Tegg hardcover
1857D4633London: William Tegg 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and marbled paper over boards lavishly gilt-stamped compartmented spine gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label endpapers and all edges marbled. With a reproduction of the frontispiece to the original edition. Moderate scuffing on boards spine tips and along edges of boards; corners lightly bumped. A worn but pretty copy with bright gilt. Internally clean. <br/><br/> William Tegg hardcover books
182718286Longman Rees Orme etc. 1827. Book. Very Good. Hard Covers. The Thirteenth Edition corrected. Half calf. Marbled endpapers. Gilt title on spine. Light wear to corners and to spine ends. Hinges are sound. Two Volumes. Bookplate in each volume. Longman, Rees, Orme, etc. Hardcover
1806B1-C18567Vernor Hood and Sharpe and J. and E. Hodson in London 1806. 11 edition corrected . Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes gilt decorated spine. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, and J. and E. Hodson in London hardcover
18899031333New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with labels affixed to spines. Volume one has frontispiece of original edition tipped in. Neat signature of previous owner on flyleafs of all volumes. Minor wear to extremities of all volumes minor chipping to heads of two spines and noticeable chipping to head of third 1/4 x 1/2 inch. Each volume 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 1481 total pages. <br/><br/> A.C. Armstrong and Son hardcover
183828345London: B. Blake 1838. Very Good. London: B. Blake 1838. Sixteenth Edition. Octavo; contemporary half navy blue calf over marbled boards gilt-tooled spine in six compartments red spine label top edge gilt marbled endpapers; 67431pp.; engraved frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed with exposure at corners boards discreetly reattached small blemish to rear cover textblock a bit toned with very occasional contemporary pencil marginalia else a Very Good still quite attractive copy.<br /> <br /> First published in 1621 The Anatomy saw five heavily updated editions under the author's hand before his death nearly 20 years later in 1640. This edition printed from the "authorized copy of 1651 with the author's last corrections additions &c. &c. B. Blake unknown
18804373New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. With a satirical preface . A New Edition corrected and enriched by translations of the numerous classical exrtacts. Set complete in three volumes uniformly bound with matching leather spines and corners spines with gilt-lettered brown and blue labels and gilt decorations all page edges marbled marbled endpapers Volume I with reproduction of engraved frontipiece from Sixth Edition. Heavy extra for international postage.; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 500467514 pp; A nicely preserved set with but minor faults. All volumes have small rubbed areas and light edgewear Volume III only with 1" sunned area across top of front board. Hinges are without wear. A few pages with minor corner wear; no ownership inscriptions clean and unmarked pages. . A. C. Armstrong and Son hardcover
185476552London: William Tegg and Co 1854. Near Fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Very attractive item. No date circa 1854. William Tegg and Co unknown
1836006552Philadelphia: T. Wardle 1836. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in the First American from the Thirteenth English Edition Corrected. In two volumes apparently rebound in late 1800s green cloth binding about Very Good leather spine labels rubbed and illegible small prior owner name stamp front end pages both volumes end pages foxed period prior owner name in ink volume one only moderate internal foxing and toning hinges starting but holding well. The first edition was published in 1621. T. Wardle Hardcover
182737791London: Longman Rees Orme and Co. Etc. 1827. Two very attractive matching calf-bound volumes. Spines have six panels with elaborate gilt floral decoration. Leather titles. Owner's signature on both free endpapers otherwise very clean throughout. A good firm sound set with minor rubbing to edges. Thirteenth Edition Corrected. Full Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Longman Rees Orme and Co. Etc. Hardcover
1806017243London: Printed for Messrs Vernon Hood Sharpe et al. 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Eleventh Edition Corrected to which is prefixed an account of the author. Two volumes bound in half green over marbled boards gilt title to spine volume II with frontispiece illustration. Volume I lacking illustration. Rubbing to boards. With bookplate of William Kemmis to verso of front boards. Clean pages tight binding. Printed for Messrs Vernon, Hood, Sharpe [et al.] Hardcover
1813001110London: J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell et al. 1813. Hardcover. See Description. Eleventh edition 1813 printing. 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I pp. xxiv 121 1 461 1. Volume II pp. 2 612. Bound in full modern tan calf after period style with spine gilt in 6 compartments. Interior pages are generally very clean with occasional faint foxing. Robert Burton's psychiatric study "Anatomy of Melancholy" first printed in London 1621 is a learned work on various types of melancholia. The author cites numerous authorities and includes much curious lore about customs treatments secrets of nature psychology witchcraft dreams sickness demons ghosts and apparitions. Burton himself may have suffered from melancholia/depression. The 8th edition of Burton's book appeared in 1676. Authors such as Milton Johnson and Sterne found inspiration with Burton. Nevertheless in the 18th century the book fell into obscurity with no editions being issued. Interest in Burton's work increased during the Romantic Period and in 1800 J. Cundee published a 9th edition with corrections and with an account of the author's life. Other editions with further corrections and notes came out during the 19th century. Burton's work is now considered a classic of English literature. The first printing of the 11th edition by Vernor Hood & Sharpe appeared in 1806. This J. Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell printing of the 11th edition appeared in 1813. Wellcome II 278 citing the first volume for this edition or see copy at the Wellcome Collection online. <br/> <br/> J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell [et al.] hardcover
1827Embry 196852Longman Rees Orme and Co. 1827. Thirteen edition corrected. Owner's gift inscription boards with some rubbing and scuffing spines fine overall near fine handsome set with hinges firm and internally clean in custom mylar covers. Period brown calf handsomely respined with compartments elabrotately gilt and red and deep green title and volume lables. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., 1827. Thirteen edition, corrected. hardcover books
1838105956London: B. Blake. 1838. Large octavo full leather binding gilt lettering and decorated rules to spine blindstamped design in panels to spine gilt stamped rule and blindstamped decoration to borders of boards marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece based on the famous frontispiece of 1628 with numerous illustrated panels "drawn and engraved expressly for this edition" by C. Freeman pp viii 743. Rubbed to the head and foot of the spine some rubbing to edges some off-setting to frontispiece from tissue-guard. Small inscription nineteenth century 'Edwin Palmer for H.W. Fisher' to the reverse of the front free endpaper. Very good condition. Robert Burton's seventeenth-century classic was first published in 1621. The work overwent considerable expansions and revisions during the author's lifetime but this edition is taken from its final form. The work is on its surface a quasi-medical text dealing with "melancholia" depression but overall it is an encyclopedic often comic approach to life philosophy and literature. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus. A review of a recent reprint described the work as "Made out of all the books that existed in a 17th-century library it was compiled in order to explain and account for all human emotion and thought." This is a handsomely bound 1838 edition in excellent condition. 16th edition. B. Blake hardcover
1836000455London: B. Blake 13 Bell Yard Tmple Bar. 1836. Original half brown calf with original period spine and end papers professionally relaid retaining 90% of original spine. Marbled boards and endsheets. Frontispiece with negligible dampstaining also to flyleaf. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and another owner's stamped name also on same. 744 pages. Overall FAIR PLUS condition. Digital photos upon request. The Anatomy of Melancholy Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is: With all the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostickes and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically Historically Opened and Cut up. is a book written by Robert Burton which was first published 1621. The book is on its surface a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the Scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia. Each section piles on ancient and mediæval medical authorities from Hippocrates Aristotle and Galen forward and adds to these ancient examples a great deal of Latin poetry. Burton defines his subject this way: Melancholy the subject of our present discourse is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow need sickness trouble fear grief passion or perturbation of the mind any manner of care discontent or thought which causes anguish dulness heaviness and vexation of spirit any ways opposite to pleasure mirth joy delight causing frowardness in us or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense we call him melancholy that is dull sad sour lumpish ill-disposed solitary any way moved or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free no Stoick none so wise none so happy none so patient so generous so godly so divine that can vindicate himself; so well-composed but more or less some time or other he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.This Melancholy of which we are to treat is a habit a serious ailment a settled humour as Aurelianus and others call it not errant but fixed: and as it was long increasing so now being pleasant or painful grown to a habit it will hardly be removed. Over the course of the book Burton draws from nearly every science of his day including psychology physiology astronomy astrology demonology meteorology and theology. In fact much of the book consists of quotations from various authorities and Burton fills the Anatomy with more or less pertinent references to the works of others. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a particularly lengthy book. The first edition printed as a single quarto volume was nearly 900 pages long and subsequent editions only added to that total. The text is partitioned into three major sections plus an introduction each arranged in Burton's sprawling style. characteristically the introduction includes not only an author's note titled "Democritus Junior to the Reader" but also a Latin poem "Democritus Junior to His Book" a warning to "The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill" an abstract of the following text and another poem explaining the frontispiece. The following three sections proceed in a similarly exhaustive fashion: the first section focuses on the causes and symptoms of "common" melancholies while the second section deals with cures for melancholy and the third section explores more complex and esoteric melancholies including the melancholy of lovers and all varieties of religious melancholies. The Anatomy concludes with an extensive index which many years later The New York Times Book Review called "a readerly pleasure in itself".; additionally most modern editions of the book are supplemented with many pages of explanatory notes for the reader. Throughout the book Burton's digressive and inclusive style often verging on a stream of consciousness consistently informs and animates the text. Though nominally a medical book the Anatomy is "vitalized by Burton's pervading humour" and is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text. The Anatomy of Melancholy has been admired by many subsequent writers from Samuel Johnson Charles Lamb and John Keats who professed it to be his favourite book to Stanley Fish Philip Pullman and Jorge Luis Borges who used a quote as an epigraph to his story "The Library of Babel". Despite its age The Anatomy of Melancholy is still considered an enduring if eccentric literary classic by many modern critics. UncleAndy. Seventh Edition. Half Calf Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. B. Blake, 13, Bell Yard, Tmple Bar. Hardcover
1836006552Philadelphia: T. Wardle 1836. SCARCE in the First American from the Thirteenth English Edition Corrected. In two volumes apparently rebound in late 1800s green cloth binding about Very Good leather spine labels rubbed and illegible small prior owner name stamp front end pages both volumes end pages foxed period prior owner name in ink volume one only moderate internal foxing and toning hinges starting but holding well. The first edition was published in 1621. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Wardle Hardcover books
1826226934London: Printed for Thomas McLean 1826. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 2 volumes. 8th edition. Rebound in dark cloth with gilt rule on spine gilt lettering on morocco labels. Gently rubbed/bumped corners gently sunned spine. Gilt on top other edges deckled. Very sparse foxing else a very nice set. VG <br/> <br/> Printed for Thomas McLean hardcover
